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2002 Spring Western Section Meeting
Portland, OR, June 20-22, 2002
Meeting #978

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

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Saturday June 22, 2002

• Saturday June 22, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sales
  Room 307, Neuberger Hall
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, III
  Room 385, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric Babson, University of Washington babson@math.washington.edu
  Rekha Thomas, University of Washington thomas@math.washington.edu
  Sergey Yuzvinsky, University of Oregon yuz@darkwing.uoregon.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Chen ranks of arrangements.
    Alexander I Suciu*, Northeastern University
    (978-20-112)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Linearity of resonance components in characteristic $p$.
    Michael J. Falk*, Northern Arizona University
    (978-14-94)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    A B\'ezout-type formula for bivariate hypergeometric systems.
    Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Laura Felicia Matusevich*, UC Berkeley
    Timur Sadykov, Stockholm University
    (978-14-57)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    A short simplicial h-vector and the Upper Bound Theorem.
    Patricia L Hersh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    Isabella Novik*, University of Washington, Seattle
    (978-05-43)
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Qualitative Properties and Applications of Functional Equations, IV
  Room 388, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Theodore A. Burton, Southern Illinois University taburton@olypen.com
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dynamics of Differential Equations on Invariant Manifolds.
    James S Muldowney*, University Of Alberta
    Michael Y Li, University of Alberta
    (978-34-33)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some principles in dynamical systems.
    John R Haddock*, University of Memphis
    (978-34-70)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stability In Linear Volterra Integrodifferential Equations With Nonlinear Perturbation.
    Youssef N Raffoul*, University of Dayton
    Muhammad N Islam, University of Dayton
    (978-45-12)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stable Periodic Solutions in Functional Equations.
    Roger H. Hering*, University of Missouri-Rolla
    (978-34-79)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stability by Fixed Point Theory or Liapunov Theory: A Comparison.
    Theodore A Burton*, Southern Illinois University
    (978-34-42)
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Matroid Theory, III
  Room 387, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Jennifer M. McNulty, University of Montana mcnulty@selway.umt.edu
  Nancy Ann Neudauer, Pacific University nancy@pacificu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    An operation for matroids.
    Scott Jones*, The University of Montana
    (978-05-60)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modularly contractible $GF(q)$-representable matroids.
    David L Neel*, Truman State University
    (978-05-84)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Semiunique representation of some graph-like matroids.
    Thomas Zaslavsky*, SUNY at Binghamton
    (978-05-29)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Survey and catalog of finite linear spaces viewed as matroids.
    Sandra R Kingan*, Penn State Harrisburg
    (978-05-68)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Pseudo-triangulations and Rigidity.
    Brigitte Servatius*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (978-05-101)
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Flat Structures, Moduli Spaces, and Minimal Surfaces, I
  Room 373, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthias Weber, Indiana University matweber@indiana.edu
  Michael Wolf, Rice University mwolf@math.rice.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Helicoidal Minimal Surfaces.
    Matthias Weber*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (978-51-111)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Harmonic univalent mappings and minimal graphs in $R^3$.
    Michael J Dorff*, Brigham Young University
    (978-49-44)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Area-minimizing minimal graphs over nonconvex domains.
    Denise M Halverson*, Brigham Young University
    Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University
    Gary Lawlor, Brigham Young University
    (978-30-17)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Solutions tp the H-Surface Equation.
    Henry C Wente*, University Of Toledo
    (978-35-38)
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quantum Topology, III
  Room 381, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Douglas G. Bullock, Boise State University bullock@math.boisestate.edu
  Joanna M. Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
  Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the potential functions for the hyperbolic structures of a knot complement.
    Yoshiyuki Yokota*, Tokyo Metropolitan University
    (978-57-55)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TQFT arising from operator algebras.
    Marta Asaeda*, Univ of Maryland
    (978-81-96)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Property P for some knots.
    Oliver T Dasbach*, LSU
    Tao Li, Oklahoma State University
    (978-57-90)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A curious curve.
    Steven A. Bleiler*, Portland State University
    (978-57-62)
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Low Dimensional Homotopy and Combinatorial Group Theory, II
  Room 350, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  F. Rudolf Beyl, Portland State University beylf@pdx.edu
  Paul Latiolais, Portland State University paul@mth.pdx.edu
  William A. Bogley, Oregon State University bogley@math.orst.edu
  Micheal N. Dyer, University of Oregon dyer@math.uoregon.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Consistency Test for Asphericity.
    Travis R Kelm*, University of Oregon
    (978-55-114)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Finiteness properties and the topology of monoid presentations.
    Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
    John Meier, Lafayette College
    (978-20-63)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Finitely presented subgroups of groups with higher finiteness properties.
    W. A. Bogley, Oregon State University
    Jens Harlander*, Oregon State University
    (978-20-129)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Problem/Discussion.
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA Session on the Use of Technology in Community College Mathematics Courses
  Room 343, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Haberman, Portland Community College
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA Session by Junior Faculty on their Research
  Room 341, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Ann Firkins, Linfield College
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  PNW-MAA Teaching Award Winner
  Room 364, Neuberger Hall
  Presenters:
  Andrew Chang-Fung Liu, University of Alberta
  

• Saturday June 22, 2002, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Techmuller theory and minimal surfaces in space.
  Room 338, Smith Memorial Center
  Michael Wolf*, Rice University
  (978-53-05)
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Improving pc graphics.
  Room 338, Smith Memorial Center
  Jim H. Valerio*, Intel Desktop Architecture Labs
  (978-00-11)
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics, IV
  Room 385, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric Babson, University of Washington babson@math.washington.edu
  Rekha Thomas, University of Washington thomas@math.washington.edu
  Sergey Yuzvinsky, University of Oregon yuz@darkwing.uoregon.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discrete models for algebraic invariants of spaces of polynomials.
    Dmitry N Kozlov*, Bern University/KTH Stockholm
    (978-57-71)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Gromov-Witten invariants on Grassmannians.
    Anders S. Buch*, M.I.T.
    Andrew Kresch, University of Pennsylvania
    Harry Tamvakis, Brandeis University
    (978-14-124)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Period Integrals and Feynman diagrams.
    Prakash Belkale, University of Utah
    Patrick G Brosnan*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (978-14-86)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Eliminating Two Variables from Three Sparse Unmixed Polynomial Equations.
    Amit Khetan*, University of California Berkeley
    (978-14-116)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Schubert calculus on Grassmannians, via puzzles: ordinary, equivariant, K-theory, and quantum.
    Allen Knutson*, UC Berkeley
    Terence Tao, UCLA
    (978-14-127)
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on The Quintic Equation: Algebra and Geometry, II
  Room 343, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Jerry Shurman, Reed College jerry@reed.edu
  Scott Crass, California State University, Long Beach scrass@csulb.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Solving the quintic by iteration in three dimensions.
    Scott Crass*, CSU, Long Beach
    (978-37-104)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Klein's Galois Theory of the Icosahedral Group via Elliptic Curves.
    Edray Herber Goins*, Caltech/Harvard
    (978-11-102)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Icosahedral Galois Representations and Modular Forms.
    Mark Dickinson*, University of Michigan
    (978-11-87)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A minimalist approach to the insolvability of the quintic.
    David McKay*, Cal State Long Beach
    (978-12-122)
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Flat Structures, Moduli Spaces, and Minimal Surfaces, II
  Room 373, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthias Weber, Indiana University matweber@indiana.edu
  Michael Wolf, Rice University mwolf@math.rice.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    An Hurwitz function on moduli space.
    Sa'ar D Hersonsky*, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
    Frederic Paulin, ENS-Paris, France
    (978-53-123)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Toward a Compactification of the Moduli Space of Convex $\mathbb{RP}^2$ Surfaces.
    John C. Loftin*, Columbia University
    (978-53-72)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Asymptotic Flatness of the Weil-Petersson Metric on Teichmuller Space.
    Zheng Huang*, Rice University
    (978-53-89)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Veech surfaces and complete periodicity in genus 2.
    Kariane Calta*, University of Chicago
    (978-51-98)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Harmonic Maps Between Hyperbolic Spaces.
    Michael Wolf*, Rice University
    Scott D Pauls, Dartmouth College
    (978-58-103)
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quantum Topology, IV
  Room 381, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Douglas G. Bullock, Boise State University bullock@math.boisestate.edu
  Joanna M. Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University kania@math.boisestate.edu
  Uwe Kaiser, Boise State University kaiser@math.boisestate.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cocycle knot invariants from dynamical cocycles of quandles and Yang-Baxter cocycles of ubiques.
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    (978-57-76)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A generalization of quandles and homology theory of set-theoretic Yang-Baxter equations.
    Mohamed Elhamdadi*, University of South Florida
    (978-57-77)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the completeness of the involutory Kuperberg invariant of 3-manifolds.
    Fernando J. O. Souza*, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
    (978-57-118)
• Saturday June 22, 2002, 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Special Presentation
  Supporting Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics: Why and how you should integrate assessment of student learning in your instructional programs.
  Room 364, Neuberger Hall
  Organizers:
  Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University

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